and in another notable ballot measure, in california, voters agreed to pay more in sales tax and more in income tax for high earners, to help close what governor jerry brown calls a $34 billion state budget cap. >> and on a beautiful evening in denver, mike taibbe, thank you. >>> chuck todd, for those of us who love the game and love politics, there are so many race -- results from last night. i thought i would let you free associate, especially the names people might know, who won and lost in some of the big and small races. >> reporter: well, you know there was a house and senate, a married couple, connie mack the fourth, from florida, the son of a former senator, mary bono mack, the widow of sonnybono, he lost to bill nelson, and mary bono lost a very close race, mostly thanks to re-districting. so they go from being one of washington's power couples, to now looking for work. but ben chandler, a long-time democratic member of congress. in fact, if you look at all of these, if you were an older white male house democrat, and you were running in a reddish district, sometimes a rural